Method of making button-holes



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J. WARE.

METHOD OF MAKING- BUTTON HOLES.

No. 278,473. Patented May 29,1883.

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JAMES WARE, OF UNION HILL, NEW JERSEY.

'METHODOF MAKING BUTTON-HOLES.

sPEcIF'IcATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,473, dated May 29, 1883.

Application filed April 7, 1883. (No model.)

proved Mode of Makin gButton-Holes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of ret'erenceindicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a button-hole strip illustrating my improvement. Fig. 2 represents the button-hole strip applied to a pair of drawers. Fig. 3 represents one of the'pieces that form the button-hole strip. Fig. 4 represents three of the pieces sewed together at their middle parts. Fig. 5 is a section of a. part of the same, takenthrough the line or m, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents theinnerside of onehalf of a strip. Fig. 7 represents a strip ready to be sewed to a garment. Fig. 8 is a section ofa part of the same, takenthrough the line 1 g- The object of this invention is to facilitate the making of button-holes, effect a saving in a so time and material, and produce neater and more durable button-holes than those madein the ordinary manner.

' The invention consists in the mode of making button-holes by sewing narrow pieces of material together near the edges-of their middle parts, then folding the said edges down, then t'oldingthe pieces together at their mid-. dle parts, with the folded edges inward, and then sewing the pieces togetheralong the opposite sides of the button-holes and along the folded edge of the strip, as will be hereinafter fully described. 7 y

In making my improved button-holes, narrow pieces A, of cloth, are taken, greater by one than the number of button-holes to be made in the strip. The pieces A are then sewed together at their middle parts and at a little distance from their edges, as shown at the points B, and the adjacent edges are folded over, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 and in dotted lines in Fig. 4. The pieces A are then doubled across the centers of the seams B, with the folded edges outward, as shown in Fig. 6, and the outer corner of the upper piece is trimmed on into curved form, and the upper edges of the parts of the said piece are. sewed together, as

shown at the point (3 in Fig. 6. The pieces A are then folded in the other direction, bringing the folded edges into the interior of the folded strip, and the strip is sewed along the opposite sides of the button-holes and along the fold of the said strip, as shown in Fig. 7. The strip is then ready to be sewed into the garment D, as shown in Fig. 2, or to have tapes E sewed to it, as shown in Fig. 1. The latter construction is to be used when the strips are to be made by the quantity and sold to the manufacturers of garments, in which case the strips are applied to the garment by sewing the outer edges of the tapes E to the edge of the garment, interposed between thesaid tapes. By this'construction each'side of a button-hole will be formed of two folded edges, as shown in Fig. 8, and will thus be very strong and durable.

same material as the garments or of a different material, as may be desired. With this construction the button-hole strips can be made of the pieces of material formed in cut-. ting the garments, so that a saving of material will be efl'ected.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The mode of making button-holes herein shown and described, which consists in sewing narrow pieces of material together near the edges of their middle parts, then folding the said edges down, then folding the pieces together at their middle parts, with the folded edges inward, and then sewing the pieces together along the opposite sides of the buttonholes and along the folded edge of the strip, as set forth.

2. Button-hole strips made substantially as herein shown and described, and consisting of thenarrow pieces A, sewed together near the edges of their middle parts, having theiredges folded down, folded together at their middle parts, and sewed along the folds, as set forth. JAMES WARE. Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, G. Snnewrcn.

The button-hole strips may be made of the 

